# Yide Zhao

> Superintelligence Lab @ Meta | Undergrad & Master @ UPenn

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yide

I'm a passionate learner and builder with a strong quantitative background. As a dual-degree graduate in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), I gained deep domain knowledge in quantitative fields and developed strong research ability from the great Penn faculty. I finished my undergrad concurrently with a Data Science Master in 2022. 

Currently, I'm based in SF bay area.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Trust & Safety @ Meta Superintelligence Lab (MSL)
- LLM Ads Creative Optimization @ Monetization GenAI
  Work publish in: (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21983) Improving GenAI Ad on Facebook using Reinforcement Learning
- Instagram Ads Delivery and Supply

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
— CIS350 Software Engineering (Head TA for projects): With Professor Eric Fouh to teach full stack and agile software engineering.
— CIS520 Machine Learning: With Professors Lyle Ungar and Shivani Agarwal to teach machine learning concepts
— CIS550 Database: With Professor Susan Davidson to teach SQL query, optimization, and database structure
— CIS557 Programming for Web: With Professor Eric Fouh to teach full stack – React, Node.js, SQL, MongoDB

### Research Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Delivery Experience AI/ML team

### Teaching Assistant @ The Wharton School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
— FNCE237 Data Science for Finance with Professor Michael Roberts
— FNCE385 Fintech with Professor Shimon Kogan

### Research Assistant and Published Author @ Tsinghua University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Beijing, China
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## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Data Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Science and Mathematical Economics
University of Pennsylvania

### High School Diploma
Beijing No.4 High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yidezhao

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Last updated: 2026-03-22